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AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED 



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IN THE 



STATE OF LOUISIANA AND CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, 



AND TO 



RAISE A REVENUE FOR THAT PURPOSE 



Approved Maxell 10, 1871. 



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NEW ORLEANS: 

PRINTED AT THE REPUBLICAN OFFICE, 94 CAMP STREET. 

1872. 



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No. 8.] ^iq- ^OT 

Entitled An Act to amend an act entitled An Act to regulate public education in 
the State of Louisiana and city of New Orleans, and to raise a revenue for 
that purpose, approved March 16, 1870. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives 
of the State of Louisiana iri General Assembly convened, That the 
State Board of Education shall, immediately upon the passage of 
this act, appoint a Board of School Directors, consisting of at least 
five members for each parish of this State, excepting the parish of 
Orleans, to be composed, when practicable, of persons residing in 
different parts of the parish, who shall hold their office two years 
from April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, or until their 
successors shall be duly appointed and qualified. And said Parish 
Boards shall perform all the duties, possess all the rights and privi- 
leges, and assume all the obligations of the Ward Boards of School 
Directors and the School Boards of all cities and towns in the State 
having a population of less than one thousand persons. 

The Treasurer of said Parish Board shall perform the duties of 
Secretary, and be entitled to such compensation as the Parish Board 
may allow out of local or parish school funds, the same not to 
exceed one hundred dollars per year. 

The Parish Board shall hold their regular meetings on the first 
Monday in January, April, July and October of each year; they 
shall convene, at their first regular meeting, on the call of any two 
of the appointed members or of the Division Superintendent, and 
no such meeting shall be held to be legal unless every member has 
been duly notified thereof. Special meetings may be held in the 
same manner. They shall, at their first meeting, organize by elect- 
ing from their own number a President and a Treasurer, who shall 
be Secretary of the Board; they shall perform all the duties now 
required of officers and not inconsistent with the provisions of this 
act. The Treasurer of the city, town and Parish Boards shall give 
bonds in an amoimt not less than five thousand dollars, the same to 



be approved by the parish or district judge and the recorder of the 
parish, and be recorded. Said bonds may, from time to time, be 
increased by order of the Board, or of the district judge, or of 
the State Superintendent of Public Education, in proportion to the 
amount of school funds on hand. The Board shall, from time to 
time, examine the Treasurer's accounts and settle them. 

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted^ etc.j That the State Board of Edu- 
cation shall immediately appoint a Board of School Directors for 
each incorporated town and city of the State (excepting the city of 
New Orleans) having one thousand or more inhabitants ; such 
Boards to number not less than three nor more than five members, 
who shall hold their office in the manner prescribed by the Parish 
Boards. They shall elect a President and Treasurer, who shall be 
Secretary of the Board, and receive out of the local school fund a 
salary of not more than one hundred dollars per year. They shall 
perform such duties as are now required of those officers, and not 
inconsistant with this act. All incorporated towns and cities having 
less than one thousand inhabitants shall be provided for by the 
respective Parish Boards. 

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That the corporate authorities 
of the respective parishes, towns and cities for which Boards shall 
be appointed (excepting the city of New Orleans) shall once in each 
year place upon their annual budget an amount of tax not to exceed 
two mills on the dollar, nor less than one mill, the same to be levied 
on the taxable property of the parishes, towns nnd cities aforesaid; 
and to be collected at the same time and in the same manner as 
other taxes, and paid over to the Treasurers of said Parish, Town or 
City Boards of School Directors, to be used exclusively for the lease, 
purchase, building and furnishing of schoolhouses, or for land 
therefor, and for such other expenses as may be approved by the 
Division Superintendent. 

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Parish Board of 
School Directors shall receive from the hands of Parish and Ward 
Boards, and of towns and cities having less than one thousand 
inhabitants, now organized, all funds and school records in their 
possession, and such funds shall be applied by the Parish Boards 
exclusively to the benefit of the said wards, towns or cities, and 
when the electors have voted a tax for school purposes, the Parish 



Boards shall receive and apply the proceeds to the exclusive benefit 
of the wards so voting, and of the said towns or cities. And all 
Town and City Boards now organized shall likewise turn over such 
school funds and records to their successors appointed under this 
act. The new Board shall assume all obligations of previous Boards 
, superseded by them. 

Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, etc., That in any parish, city or town 
where a Board of School Directors fail to establish schools within 
sixty days after their appointment, or to perform such other duties 
as are required of them by law, the Division Superintendent for the 
division in which such delinquent Boards are located may establish 
schools, and perform as far as possible such other neglected duties, 
and warrant on the State Treasurer and the Treasurers of such 
Boards for the school funds of such parishes, cities and towns, and 
apply the same for the purposes and in the manner provided by law, 
each warrant to be approved by the President of the State Board of 
Education. The Division Superintendent shall act in such cases 
only until a local Board can be found to perform the duties. 

Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, etc., That the State Board of Euca- 
tion shall immediately, on the passage of this act, appoint a Board 
of School Directors for the city of New Orleans, composed of one 
member from each Representative District of the city. They shall 
be divided into three classes, and shall hold ofiSce for three years, 
except that in the case of the Board first appointed one-third shall 
go out in one year, one-third in two years, and the remainder at the 
expiration of three years. The State Board of Education to appoint 
three members each year after the appointment of the first Board, 
and to fill all vacancies occurring. The Board so appointed shall 
have control of the public schools in the city, and shall be a body 
corporate and politic. Said Board shall employ a Secretary at a 
salary of two thousand ($2000) dollars per year, payable on the 
warrant of the President out of such funds as come into the hands 
of the Board. 

Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Board of School 
Directors for the city of New Orleans shall, immediately upon their 
organization, and also at the commencement of each year thereafter, 
ascertain the amount of funds necessary to carry on the schools 
under their charge for the current year, and report the same to the 



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Board of Administrators of the city of New Orleans, wiio shall, at 
such time as they may deem necessary, levy the amount on the 
taxable property of the city, and direct the same to be collected in 
the manner and at the time by them deemed most desirable, but 
the time shall not exceed six months from the date of their notifica- 
tion of the amount required. 

Sec. 8. Be it further enacted^ etc., That the Administrator of 
Finance of the city of New Orleans shall perform the duties of 
Treasurer of the Board of School Directors for the city of New 
Orleans as a part of his official duties, and shall receive all moneys 
collected for or appropriated to the parish of Orleans for school pur- 
poses ; shall daily deposit the same in the Fiscal Agency of the city, 
and only pay them out by checks, on the order of said Board of 
School Directors ; and he shall be, ex officio, a member of the 
Board. 

Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Division Superin- 
tendent of the Sixth Division shall have a salary of four thousand 
($4000) dollars per annum; He shall be allowed a secretary and 
one or more messengers, at an expense of not more than twenty- 
five hundred ($2500) dollars per year, payable monthly, out of the 
public school fund, on the warrant of the Division Superintendent 
of said Sixth Division. The Division Superintendents shall draw 
their salaries monthly and the State Superintendent quarterly, out 
of the public school fund, upon their own warrants, and the 
Division Superintendent shall be allowed an annual contingent fund 
of six hundred ($600) dollars from the date of their appointments, 
payable in the same manner. 

Sec 10. Be it further enacted, etc., That the State Superintendent 
of Public Education shall, quarterly, on the first Monday in March, 
June, September and December in each year, apportion the funds 
raised among the several wards, cities and towns of the State, 
according to the number of children between the ages of six and 
twenty'One years within the same. The amount so apportioned 
shall be paid by the State Treasurer to the Treasurers of the 
respective Parish, City and Town Boards of School Directors, upon 
warrants signed by the President and . countersigned by the 
Secretary thereof. 



Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, etc., That all acts and parts of acts 

in conflict with this act are hereby repealed, and that this act shall 

take effect from and after its passage. , 

(Signed) GEO. W. CARTER, 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

(Signed) ' OSCAR J. DUNN, 

Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate. 

Approved March 16, ISU. 

(Signed) H. C. WARMOTH, 

Governor of the State of Louisiana. 
A true copy : 

Geo. E. Bovee, 

Secretary of State. 



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